NewStats: 3,262,192 , 8,176,430 topics. Date: Sunday, 01 June 2025 at 10:18 AM 1m4g

Good morning my dear nairalanders..

Something terrible happened to me and other guys involved last week friday. It all started 3 to 4 months back when I was introduced to this guy named joshua abolaji boluwatife by a friend who works in thesame hotel this guy who claimed to be a football agent was lodging. He told me wen I met him that he is the zonal agent of a football academy in lagos named hoffnung international football academy. He said he was sent by the management to come open a branch in kano, that his boss gave him 4 slots to bring any player of his choice that will be included for the coming trials in lagos, benue and abuja. So I agreed with mr joshua and told him am ready if he will include me, so he said no problem that he will pick me and give some form to fill. After I collected and filled the form he started bringing up money issues that i need to send some little amount for the waybill of the document to lagos, is around 10k, and i paid 4 to 5 times for that waybill. Secondly, he started charging money for other stuffs, that I don't need to participate in the trials that I'll just be included among the successful players that will be travelling to , but I'll have to spend some little money b4 my name will be on the list. I suspected this guy from the beginning, I told my friend that introduced me to him that I don't trust this guy, and I also told him that football system doesn't work like this, I sensed a lot of lies in his statement. And also each time I question the guy about his management and their office in lagos his countenance will change, it got to a point both of us had issues because of the way I was questioning and watching him, but my guy kept on telling me to calm down that opportunity sometimes can disguise itself. That I should just follow him gradually, and I told him you don't know much about football me I know how football things work, this guy doesn't look like someone that comes from a big academy in lagos, his appearance and words is not showing it, but what he said is calm down and follow him and see how it ends. So I agreed with my guy and started following him gradually.

To cut the long story short, he told me and other footballers and my guy too, my guy later ed because he promised to give him job abroad, he told us to get what they call Basic Travelling Allowance which is €600 euros , that we will use it as our pocket money wen we get there, but their boss and the foreign scout from must see the money when they come to commission the office in kano before we finally move out of the country. So we agreed. He gave us the number of two other people who claim to be his boss and coach of the academy, so I normally communicate with them most time on phone. So last week Thursday was wen they said they'll be arriving in kano so they can finish their engagement and then move out. So the guy here in kano we've been having face to face discussion with went and book the hotel room in another place in town for them. But according to them, Thursday they came but can't see any players until Friday. So friday we are supposed to meet the management bosses in the hotel, he collected our BTA that he will change the naira to a foreign currency since me I didn't change mine and my BTA is not complete that the boss will secure some euros to help me complete mine. Only for this guy to keep me in a separate room in the hotel where he claimed is for some staff that are coming and the other players and jobseekers in his room in the hotel, but later he told them to move to the upper floor which is an open bar, that the interview will take place there with the management and the job seekers. But while he was telling the others to go up, he told me to wait that he's bringing my visa and port and also the changed foreign currency to me in the room, so I said ok. After all this arrangement by the guy, he was planning to move with our cash which he later did. The guy disappeared from the premises. It was after like 1hour something started telling check me that might have ran away with our money o, that's wen I started the room if I'll find any luggage from him or the incoming staff but I couldn't find anything. I called my guy in the other room to ask him but he told me the guy went out that he's coming. I tried his
lines and other of his colleagues line but all was switched off. Immediately I went to the room where other people were sitting waiting for him , I checked everywhere but couldn't find of his luggage but saw all our port where he dropped them inside an envelope, that's wen I concluded that the guy has ran away with our money. That's wen other people's eye got opened and they started shouting, but it was too late.


Pls I need help on how I can track this guy, he uses opay no 7040531431 joshua abolaji boluwatife, opay. The transactions we did with him was transfer to his opay and hand-cash delivery. What he collected from 4 of us around 3million naira.

Your help and advice will be highly needed now my dear nairalanders.

Sorry...

Otilo

Nawa oo

Report to police. Those numbers can be tracked.

If you are in Lagos I would have helped you.

It costs about 50k to track a number. You will spend 70k maximum and all of them will be easily arrested and your money retrieved.

mployer:
Report to police. Those numbers can be tracked.

If you are in Lagos I would have helped you.

It costs about 50k to track a number. You will spend 70k maximum and all of them will be easily arrested and your money retrieved.

u are about to fall for another scam
The Nigerian police cannot help u
Nobody here will help u
Just my opinion oo
Coz I also got scammed trying to track some police officers who stole from me last yr..
I just dey advice u ok bt u fit still try your luck
Bt if i was in yiur shoes I go sope OTILOR..
Unless u are ready to lose more to Nigerian police

Somebody that has not seen you play ball want to take you abroad and you agreed.
Abi na jazz the guy use for you?

Well, samething happened to my kid bro...is just unfortunate.

No joy in the street....trust no one

Just 2 questions pls:

Are u really a good footballer?

Did the man ever take time to monitor your performance in training or live games?

I feel like knocking your head. Why did you hand over your BTA even if it wasn't complete? The red flag was already pointing at you but you blindly ignored. Meanwhile, the guy could be one of these people:JobAndVacancies..NnamdiPapa...Sp1ritHusband...Cockpit...You never can tell.

Too many mugu for this Naija

Nigeria ought to be re-named as Muguland

No pictures, all this while you don't have his pictures ?

@ op
i am sorry about your ordeal.

The guy is as good as gone unless u want to spend money in order to get hm

Lesson well learnt.
When something looks too good to be true, use ur sixth sense.

richiemcgold:
Just 2 questions pls:

Are u really a good footballer?

Did the man ever take time to monitor your performance in training or live games?

Am a footballer
Secondly, he watched my training several times.

Danzakidakura:
No pictures, all this while you don't have his pictures ?

If you get his pix will you help me out?

Hez gone bro,so is your money.all these while ,no pics,no videos of him,no pics of the hotel,staffs,manager,etc..u paid like white and he ran off like v12...sorry

Why Una Greedy Na
If the 3m would have been enough a lot of people would have chase their football career
Hold ur friend Na planned scam from both of them since Na him Introduce u

psalmylee:
u are about to fall for another scam
The Nigerian police cannot help u
Nobody here will help u
Just my opinion oo
Coz I also got scammed trying to track some police officers who stole from me last yr..
I just dey advice u ok bt u fit still try your luck
Bt if i was in yiur shoes I go sope OTILOR..
Unless u are ready to lose more to Nigerian police

Don't say what you know nothing about

My brother was scammed of 6m 3 years ago in Onitsha. The scammers were tracked to Lagos and arrested.

I was scammed of 1.5m here in Lagos last year. The guy ran to Abia and hide himself and was still taking calls saying he is in lagos Police tracked him, called him on phone and told him his exact location and gave him 24hrs to refund the money or get arrested. He refunded only 1.3m sha.

Some people were threatening my younger sister in Onitsha two weeks ago. Saying they are IPOB and my sister should send money for 10 bags of rice or they will come and kidnap some kids from her school. We tracked them and find out the idiots are in Lagos

3m is huge amount. Normally police don't track criminals if the amount is small because of the cost.

The poster should track them and know their location first.

mployer:

Don't say what you know nothing about

My brother was scammed of 6m 3 years ago in Onitsha. The scammers were tracked to Lagos and arrested.

I was scammed of 1.5m here in Lagos last year. The guy ran to Abia and hide himself and was still taking calls saying he is in lagos Police tracked him, called him on phone and told him his exact location and gave him 24hrs to refund the money or get arrested. He refunded only 1.3m sha.

Some people were threatening my younger sister in Onitsha two weeks ago. Saying they are IPOB and my sister should send money for 10 bags of rice or they will come and kidnap some kids from her school. We tracked them and find out the idiots are in Lagos

3m is huge amount. Normally police don't track victims if the amount is small because of the cost.

The poster should track them and know their location first.

Since u have being able to do all this successfully...why not link.him up with the s to enable him do same..
I was just speaking from.expeeince may be they refused to.work on.mine because I was robbed by police officers who withdraw over 350k with their p.o.s machine from my ..
Pls link.him up coz 3 million no.be small.money oo

mployer:

Don't say what you know nothing about

My brother was scammed of 6m 3 years ago in Onitsha. The scammers were tracked to Lagos and arrested.

I was scammed of 1.5m here in Lagos last year. The guy ran to Abia and hide himself and was still taking calls saying he is in lagos Police tracked him, called him on phone and told him his exact location and gave him 24hrs to refund the money or get arrested. He refunded only 1.3m sha.

Some people were threatening my younger sister in Onitsha two weeks ago. Saying they are IPOB and my sister should send money for 10 bags of rice or they will come and kidnap some kids from her school. We tracked them and find out the idiots are in Lagos

3m is huge amount. Normally police don't track criminals if the amount is small because of the cost.

The poster should track them and know their location first.

I gat you bro.


We've already reported the issue to efcc with all our bank statements from the transactions we did with him and other evidences, and they told us to give them 2weeks if we didn't hear anything from them we should come back again.

achimendy:


If you get his pix will you help me out?

hi. Please what’s your phone number?

Medici777:
hi. Please what’s your phone number?

Pls Why are you asking?

achimendy:


Pls Why are you asking?

Because he's probably thinking you are an easy pick and could cough out some more money 😎😎😎.